Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Alto do Anxelio (EA1/CR-020)

Today I made a SOTA activation of Alto do Anxelio (EA1/CR-020). This is the video of my first QSO on HF, with English Station M0VRS (John).

The video does not have very good audio quality because it was windy, but I made a total of 42 QSOs, which is my best record so far.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Alto das Vaiñas (SOTA EA1/LU-025)

This is a video of my activation of Alto das Valiñas (EA1/LU-025). I was using a LiPO battery which is really light and powerful.

The weather was very nice, and the LiPO battery behaved very well. Thanks to Anca (YO8SOY) for the recording.
By the way, the summit in the background is Pico de Santa Irene (EA1/LU-016).

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Zimbabwe (Z21BB): The number 74

I have just received an eQSL for a QSO with Z21BB (Fernando) from Harare, Zimbabwe. This makes my 74th DXCC entity confirmed for the eDX award.
I made this QSO on 15m SSB from my car, with 100W and a 4m whip. I owe this QSO to Ernesto, EA1LQ, who told me about this opportunity when I has parking my car at the university.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

O Teso (EA1/LU-029)

Last Monday I went to activate O Teso (EA1/LU-029) with Anca (YO8SOY). I had already activated this summit in December, but it was dark when I arrived there and I only made 4 QSOs.

In March the days are much longer, and the weather was nice, so I had an opportunity to make 26 QSOs, which is my record so far. All of them were made on 20m SSB with 20W and a 2.9m whip.
Thanks to EA1AQ and EA1LQ for announcing me on the Sotawatch cluster and thanks to mi0tmw, dg6sfu/m, oe6gnd, hb9agh, ok1sde, dk2rmp, ha7ug, g6mzx, oz4rt, ok1cz, dj5av, dl1dlf/p, g6odu, i3vad, s51zg, g0tdm, la8bca, dj0gm, z35f, g4obk, hb9ckv, on4up, sp9iek, m3xie, dk3bk, and oe6wig for the QSOs.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Bailadora (EA1/CR-038)

This is a video of the activation of Bailadora (SOTA ref. EA1/CR-038). I made several contacts in VHF (EA1AQ, EA1DFP and EA1BTO) and HF.

It was foggy so you could not see the great view. I will definate be back with better conditions for you to have an opportunity to see the great view from up there.